# Ian Freeland

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{{Short description|British Army general (1912–1979)}}
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|name=Sir Ian Freeland
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|birth_place=[Milton](/source/Milton%2C_Portsmouth), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), England
|death_place=[Cambridge](/source/Cambridge), England
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|commands=7th Battalion, [Royal Norfolk Regiment](/source/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment)<br />1/5th Battalion [Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)](/source/Queen's_Royal_Regiment_(West_Surrey))<br />2nd Battalion, [Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers](/source/Royal_Inniskilling_Fusiliers)<br />[12th Infantry Brigade](/source/12th_Armoured_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom))<br />[54th (East Anglian) Division/District](/source/54th_(East_Anglian)_Infantry_Division)<br />[East Africa Command](/source/East_Africa_Command)<br />[British Land Forces Kenya Army](/source/British_Land_Forces_Kenya_Army)<br />[Northern Ireland Command](/source/HQ_Northern_Ireland)
|battles=[World War II](/source/World_War_II)<br />[Zanzibar Revolution](/source/Zanzibar_Revolution)<br />[Cyprus Emergency](/source/Cyprus_Emergency)<br />[Northern Ireland](/source/Operation_Banner)
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[Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant-general_(United_Kingdom)) '''Sir Ian Henry Freeland''' (14 September 1912 – 2 July 1979) was a senior [British Army](/source/British_Army) [officer](/source/Officer_(armed_forces)), who served with distinction during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). He was [General Officer Commanding](/source/General_officer_commanding) (GOC) and Director of Operations in security matters in [Northern Ireland](/source/Northern_Ireland) in the aftermath of [rioting in 1969](/source/1969_Northern_Ireland_Riots) and the beginning of [the Troubles](/source/the_Troubles).<ref name="Officers of the British Army">{{cite web|url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_F01.html#Freeland_IH|title=British Army officer histories|publisher=Unit Histories|access-date=2017-06-23}}</ref>

==Early military career and Second World War==
Born in [Milton](/source/Milton%2C_Portsmouth), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), [England](/source/England) on 14 September 1912, the son of Major-General Sir Francis Edward Freeland, a [British Army](/source/British_Army) officer, Ian Henry Freeland was initially educated at [Wellington College, Berkshire](/source/Wellington_College%2C_Berkshire).<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/FREELAND2.shtml|title=FREELAND, Sir Ian (Henry) (1912–1979), Lieutenant General|work=Liddell-Hart Centre for Military Archives|publisher=[King's College London](/source/King's_College_London)|access-date=26 June 2008}}</ref><ref name=Times>{{cite newspaper The Times|title=Sir Ian Freeland—Testing time in Ulster |department=Obituaries |date=23 November 1979 |page=p. IV |issue=60482 |column=F }}</ref> Then, after attending the [Royal Military College, Sandhurst](/source/Royal_Military_College%2C_Sandhurst), Freeland was [commissioned](/source/Officer_(armed_forces)) as a [second lieutenant](/source/second_lieutenant) in the Norfolk Regiment ([Royal Norfolk Regiment](/source/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment) from 3 June 1935) on 1 September 1932,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33860|pages=5622–5623|date=2 September 1932}}</ref> and, after being posted to [India](/source/British_Raj) to join the regiment's 1st Battalion, was promoted to [lieutenant](/source/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) on 1 September 1935.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34195|pages=5622–5623|date=3 September 1935}}</ref>

Shortly after the outbreak of [World War II](/source/World_War_II) in September 1939, Freeland was, on 17 January 1940, promoted to the [acting rank](/source/Acting_(rank)) of [captain](/source/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) and made [adjutant](/source/adjutant) to his battalion, which in July 1940 returned to England, then under threat of a [German invasion](/source/Operation_Sea_Lion).<ref name=Times/> His rank of captain was made permanent on 1 September 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34936|supp=y|page=5328|date=30 August 1940}}</ref> In 1942, he then served as [brigade major](/source/brigade_major) for the [7th Infantry Brigade](/source/7th_Infantry_Brigade_and_Headquarters_East), part of the [3rd Infantry Division](/source/3rd_(United_Kingdom)_Division) under Major General [Eric Hayes](/source/Eric_Hayes), and [General Staff Officer Grade 2](/source/Staff_Officer) (GSO2) at the [War Office](/source/War_Office) in 1943<ref name=lh /> and gained a variety of wartime promotions, culminating on 22 April 1944 in temporary promotion to [lieutenant colonel](/source/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_Kingdom)) and he became [Commanding Officer](/source/Commanding_officer) (CO) of the 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolks, a second-line [Territorial Army](/source/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)) (TA) unit. The battalion formed part of the [176th Infantry Brigade](/source/176th_(2%2F1st_Staffordshire)_Brigade) of the [59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division](/source/59th_(Staffordshire)_Infantry_Division), commanded by Major General [Lewis Lyne](/source/Lewis_Lyne), and, in late June, was sent overseas to [Normandy](/source/Normandy), [France](/source/France), a few weeks after the [D-Day landings](/source/Normandy_landings). The battalion was involved in the [Battle of Normandy](/source/Operation_Overlord), including the capture of [Caen](/source/Caen) during [Operation Charnwood](/source/Operation_Charnwood), where the battalion suffered over 150 casualties, which was followed by the [Second Battle of the Odon](/source/Second_Battle_of_the_Odon), and for his leadership Freeland was appointed a Companion of the [Distinguished Service Order](/source/Distinguished_Service_Order) (DSO) on 21 December 1944.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36850|supp=y|page=5853|date=19 December 1944}}</ref>

The citation for this award describes how his battalion was the forward unit of a [bridgehead](/source/bridgehead) over the [River Orne](/source/River_Orne_(Normandy)) near [Grimbosq](/source/Grimbosq) and over the forty-eight hours of 7 and 8 August 1944 repelled nine German counterattacks (by elements of the [271st Volksgrenadier Division](/source/271st_Volksgrenadier_Division) and [12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend](/source/12th_SS_Panzer_Division_Hitlerjugend)). Despite heavy German fire, Freeland constantly moved around the battlefield to encourage his forward companies, and find the moment to launch his own offensive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7705820|title=Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army)—Image details—Freeland, Ian Henry|work=Documents Online|publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> Around the same time Captain [David Jamieson](/source/David_Jamieson_(VC)) of Freeland's battalion was awarded the [Victoria Cross](/source/Victoria_Cross) (VC). Just a few days later, however, the battalion, along with the rest of the 59th Division, was, due to a critical manpower shortage in the British Army at this stage of the war, broken up and the remaining men were sent to other British infantry units to bring them to strength.

After his battalion's disbandment, Freeland was posted to command the 1/5th Battalion of the [Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)](/source/Queen's_Royal_Regiment_(West_Surrey)), part of the [131st Infantry Brigade](/source/131st_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)) of Major General [Gerald Lloyd-Verney](/source/Gerald_Lloyd-Verney)'s [7th Armoured Division](/source/7th_Armoured_Division_(United_Kingdom)), through Belgium, and was awarded the Belgian decorations of [Chevalier of the Order of the Crown with Palm](/source/Order_of_the_Crown_(Belgium)) and the [Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm](/source/Croix_de_Guerre). The citation for these awards emphasised his command of the battalion during the liberation of [Ghent](/source/Ghent), when the battalion was the leading element of the 7th Armoured Division.<ref name=Palme>{{London Gazette|issue=37853|supp=y|page=325|date=14 January 1947}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7696243|title=Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army)—Image details—Freeland, Ian Henry|work=Documents Online|publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> Freeland continued to lead the 1/5th Queens throughout the rest of the [Northwestern Europe Campaign](/source/Western_Front_(World_War_II)), until the [end of World War II in Europe](/source/end_of_World_War_II_in_Europe) in May 1945, which saw the battalion in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg), [Germany](/source/Germany).

==Postwar==
Freeland held the temporary rank of [colonel](/source/Colonel_(United_Kingdom))<ref name=Palme /> and served on the staff of HQ [VIII Corps District](/source/VIII_Corps_(United_Kingdom)), under [Lieutenant General](/source/Lieutenant-general_(United_Kingdom)) [Sir Evelyn Barker](/source/Evelyn_Barker), from 1945 to 1946, before becoming [second-in-command](/source/second-in-command) of the [4th Armoured Brigade](/source/4th_Infantry_Brigade_and_Headquarters_North_East) and further staff duties followed at HQ [British Army of the Rhine](/source/British_Army_of_the_Rhine) (BAOR) in 1946–1947. This was followed by duty as commandant, All Arms Training Centre from 1948 to 1949; staff duty at the [War Office](/source/War_Office) from 1949 to 1950; and instructing at the [Staff College, Camberley](/source/Staff_College%2C_Camberley) from 1951 to 1953.<ref name=lh /><ref name=Times />

While, at the end of the war, he held war temporary rank as a lieutenant-colonel, he was still only a substantive captain and was promoted to substantive major on 1 July 1946,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37635|supp=y|page=3371|date=28 June 1946}}</ref> and granted a [brevet](/source/brevet_(military)) promotion to lieutenant-colonel on 1 July 1951.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39397|supp=y|page=6239|date=27 November 1951}}</ref> On 15 February 1954, he was promoted substantive lieutenant-colonel, and given command of 2nd Battalion, [Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers](/source/Royal_Inniskilling_Fusiliers).<ref name=lh /><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40197|supp=y|page=3398|date=4 June 1954}}</ref> The battalion served in [Cyprus](/source/Cyprus) in 1954.<ref name=lh />

Freeland was promoted to substantive colonel on 2 April 1956 (with seniority from 10 June 1954),<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40796|supp=y|page=3295|date=1 June 1956}}</ref> and [brigadier](/source/brigadier) on 1 January 1960.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=41929|supp=y|page=435|date=12 January 1960}}</ref> He served as brigade commander of the [12th Infantry Brigade](/source/12th_Armoured_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)) from 1956 to 1957, at the [Imperial Defence College](/source/Imperial_Defence_College) in 1958, and then returned to the War Office.<ref name=lh /> He was promoted [major-general](/source/Major-general_(United_Kingdom)) on 18 March 1961 (with seniority from 10 February 1961),<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42417|supp=y|page=5395|date=18 July 1961}}</ref> and appointed [General Officer Commanding](/source/General_officer_commanding) (GOC) [54th (East Anglian) Division/District](/source/54th_(East_Anglian)_Infantry_Division) of the [Territorial Army](/source/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)),<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42303|supp=y|page=2045|date=14 March 1961}}</ref> holding that post until 17 July 1963.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43057|supp=y|page=6067|date=16 July 1963}}</ref> He was then GOC, [East Africa Command](/source/East_Africa_Command) from 1 November 1963,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43173|supp=y|page=9901|date=29 November 1963}}</ref> then [Commander, Kenya Army](/source/Commander%2C_Kenya_Army), until 28 November 1964, by which time the appointment had been renamed GOC, British Land Forces [Kenya](/source/Kenya).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43598|supp=y|page=2619|date=12 March 1965}}</ref> This period saw British involvement in the [Zanzibar Revolution](/source/Zanzibar_Revolution).<ref name=lh /> He was appointed [Companion of the Order of the Bath](/source/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath) (CB) in the [1964 New Year Honours](/source/1964_New_Year_Honours).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43200|supp=y|page=3|date=31 December 1963}}</ref> He then served as [Vice-Adjutant-General](/source/Adjutant_general) at the [Ministry of Defence](/source/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)) from 3 December 1964<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43514|supp=y|page=10649|date=11 December 1964}}</ref> until 1 February 1968.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44517|supp=y|page=1475|date=12 March 1968}}</ref> He was then appointed [Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff](/source/Deputy_Chief_of_the_General_Staff_(United_Kingdom)) on 1 April 1968 and promoted to lieutenant-general the same day (with seniority from 20 October 1968).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44558|supp=y|page=3863|date=29 March 1968}}</ref> He was promoted to [Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (KCB) in the 1968 [Queen's Birthday Honours](/source/Queen's_Birthday_Honours).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44600|supp=y|page=6300|date=31 May 1968}}</ref> He stepped down as deputy chief of staff on 31 December 1968, as the position was abolished, along with its equivalents in the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy), and [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force).<ref name=Times /><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44854|supp=y|page=5480|date=22 May 1969}}</ref>

Freeland held the honorary appointment of Deputy Colonel of the [Royal Anglian Regiment](/source/Royal_Anglian_Regiment) (successor to the Royal Norfolk Regiment) with specific responsibility for the [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk), Suffolk and [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire) components of the regiment from 1968,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44625|supp=y|page=7349|date=28 June 1968}}</ref> and was appointed colonel of the regiment on 4 October 1971,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45487|supp=y|page=10678|date=4 October 1971}}</ref> relinquishing the appointment on 1 October 1976.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47030|supp=y|page=13442|date=4 October 1976}}</ref>

==Northern Ireland==
In the middle of August 1969, the decision was made to reinforce the [Royal Ulster Constabulary](/source/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary) in Northern Ireland with army personnel. Freeland had been appointed general officer commanding on 9 July 1969, during a relatively peaceful time in the early Troubles, when just 1,000 British troops were stationed there,<ref name=Times/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44895|supp=y|page=7284|date=11 July 1969}}</ref> and was subsequently made director of operations in security matters on 28 August.{{sfn|Bew|Gillespie|1993|p=18}} By mid-August, there had been [major rioting](/source/1969_Northern_Ireland_Riots). Troop levels had reached about 6,000, and Freeland was warning that there was a danger that soldiers would become targets.<ref>{{cite newspaper The Times|title=British troops may become targets, GOC says|author=Douglas-Home, Charles|department=News|date=19 August 1969|page=8|issue=57642|column=B}}</ref>

Freeland argued strongly for the abolition of the [B Specials](/source/B_Specials).<ref name=Times/> Support from the [Irish Nationalist](/source/Irish_nationalism) population also waned after the shooting of Daniel O'Hagan on 31 July 1970. He received criticism for a television interview he gave, in which he said, "that the Army's patience was not inexhaustible, and that force might have to be met by force".<ref name=Times/> He fully expected to be dismissed from his post, but he was supported by the Prime Minister, [Harold Wilson](/source/Harold_Wilson), and the [Home Secretary](/source/Home_Secretary), [James Callaghan](/source/James_Callaghan).<ref name=Times/><ref>{{cite newspaper The Times|title=Home Secretary defends General Freeland: Unionist MP wants commander replaced|department=Politics and Parliament|date=8 April 1970|page=13|issue=57838|column=D}}</ref> By June 1970, troop numbers reached 7,000, largely to meet expected trouble arising from the climax of the ["marching season"](/source/Parades_in_Northern_Ireland), and the release of [Bernadette Devlin](/source/Bernadette_Devlin_McAliskey) from jail.

In the event, no major trouble materialised, perhaps thanks to the precautions put in effect.<ref name=Times/> By September 1970, it was reported that Freeland was to step down at his own request, due to extreme stress.<ref name=Times/><ref>{{cite newspaper The Times|title=Two new security chiefs for Northern Ireland|author=Stanhope, Henry & John Chartres|department=News|date=24 September 1970|page=2|issue=57979|column=E}}</ref> He was succeeded by [Vernon Erskine-Crum](/source/Vernon_Erskine-Crum) on 4 February 1971.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45299|supp=y|page=1214|date=5 February 1971}}</ref> This proved to be a short-lived appointment as Erskine-Crum suffered a heart attack soon afterwards and was replaced, in turn, by Lieutenant-General [Harry Tuzo](/source/Harry_Tuzo) on 2 March.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45322|supp=y|page=2269|date=16 March 1971}}</ref> Freeland was appointed [Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (GBE) in the 1971 Queen's Birthday Honours,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45384|supp=y|page=5961|date=4 June 1971}}</ref> and retired from the army on 21 June 1971.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45422|supp=y|page=7491|date=12 July 1971}}</ref>

He correctly predicted a "honeymoon period" after British soldiers were placed on patrol on the streets, though he incorrectly predicted that the [peace lines](/source/peace_lines) in [Belfast](/source/Belfast) were to be temporary. {{blockquote|The peace line will be a very, very temporary affair. We will not have a Berlin Wall or anything like that in this city.|Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Freeland, 1969<ref>{{cite web|last=Harding|first=Thomas|title=The security wall on our doorstep|work=Telegraph.co.uk|publisher=[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)|date=25 February 2004|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1455245/The-security-wall-on-our-doorstep.html|access-date=25 August 2008}}</ref>}}

==Retirement==
After his retirement from the army in 1971, Freeland lived in [Dereham](/source/Dereham), Norfolk. He was appointed a [Deputy Lieutenant](/source/Deputy_Lieutenant) of Norfolk in 1972,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45720|page=8076|date=12 July 1971}}</ref> and Vice Lieutenant in 1978.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47510|page=4428|date=11 April 1978}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In the late 1930s, while stationed in India, Freeland met Mary Armitage, daughter of [General](/source/General_(United_Kingdom)) [Sir Charles Armitage](/source/Clement_Armitage).<ref name="Officers of the British Army" /> During the early stages of World War II, he returned to England with her and, on 2 January 1940, they were married at St. Andrews Church, [Kilverstone](/source/Kilverstone); they had three children, Charles, born in 1941, Sue, born in 1943, and Henry, born in 1948.<ref name="Officers of the British Army" />

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|last1=Bew |first1=Paul |first2=Gordon |last2=Gillespie|title=Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles, 1968–1993|publisher=[Gill & Macmillan](/source/Gill_%26_Macmillan)|year=1993|isbn=0-7171-2081-3}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels_and_co/commanding_officers/queens_west_surrey/lt-gen-sir-ian-freeland.shtml Biography: Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Freeland GBE KGB DSO] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028114638/http://queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels_and_co/commanding_officers/queens_west_surrey/lt-gen-sir-ian-freeland.shtml |date=28 October 2021 }}
*[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_F01.html#Freeland_IH British Army Officers 1939−1945]

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